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Psychiatry
August 10, 2022
Eleanor Cummins
It’s Good When Science Confirms That Depression Is Complicated
A major paper debunking the “serotonin hypothesis” has a lot of people agitated. But leaving more room for nuance in our discussions about mental health is the right idea.
July 10, 2020
Alex Shephard
Mary Trump Diagnoses the President
A dark new family history from Donald Trump’s niece may be the most intimate psychological portrait of him yet.
June 1, 2017
Warren Breckman
The Fortunes of Freud
The prestige that psychoanalysis gained in the midcentury was also its downfall.
August 15, 2014
Lisa Appignanesi
Can Science Offer New Answers to Mental Illness?
August 1, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
'I Dreamed of a Sudden Death!': Passages from Siegfried Sassoon's Diaries
The haunting private thoughts of one of the twentieth century's best known English soldiers and poets
June 25, 2014
Jenny Jarvie
Is "Sensory Processing Disorder" a Real Medical Condition?
Thousands of parents say it is. The psychiatric establishment disagrees.
May 27, 2013
Sherwin B. Nuland
What Should We Call Depression?
A bold proposal by one of our best historians of psychiatry for how to make sense of the puzzling disease
May 12, 2013
Stanley Kauffmann
Discovery
May 8, 2013
Martha Stout
The Pernicious Politics of the DSM-V
A brilliant look at the medicalization of misery
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